Question / Help Buying a streaming PC

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retsdim

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Guys, I know I’ll probably get yelled at for this.. but I’ve lived on this site for weeks learning the ins and out of OBS so I trust everyone’s opinion here more than anywhere else...

Due to the pandemic, our church has started live streaming all services to Facebook. We have learned as much, and as quickly as I believe amateurs wanna be techies can learn.. it’s been fun. And we are absolutely in love with OBS.
Our problem is our weakest point right now is our laptop that we run OBS off of. It’s going to have to be replaced and we are ready to do so, we just don’t know what we need to focus on when buying a PC used strictly for running OBS, basically.

We are currently using a Magewell USB Capture HDMI Gen 2, and plugging in to laptop via USB 3.0. When we purchase a replacement, should we be focusing on a better capture card? Processing power? Memory? Again, this machine will only be doing OBS, and probably any graphics designing we do for our stream.

Your all’s expertise in this would be greatly appreciated! We are just a bunch of wannabes trying to fake it till we make it! Thanks in advance!
 
retsdim said:
Guys, I know I’ll probably get yelled at for this.. but I’ve lived on this site for weeks learning the ins and out of OBS so I trust everyone’s opinion here more than anywhere else...

Due to the pandemic, our church has started live streaming all services to Facebook. We have learned as much, and as quickly as I believe amateurs wanna be techies can learn.. it’s been fun. And we are absolutely in love with OBS.
Our problem is our weakest point right now is our laptop that we run OBS off of. It’s going to have to be replaced and we are ready to do so, we just don’t know what we need to focus on when buying a PC used strictly for running OBS, basically.

We are currently using a Magewell USB Capture HDMI Gen 2, and plugging in to laptop via USB 3.0. When we purchase a replacement, should we be focusing on a better capture card? Processing power? Memory? Again, this machine will only be doing OBS, and probably any graphics designing we do for our stream.

Your all’s expertise in this would be greatly appreciated! We are just a bunch of wannabes trying to fake it till we make it! Thanks in advance!
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You are lucky to purchase something on this pandemic. Here in Brazil, currency raised and 1 dollar = 5 real ( our currency ), so, computers and products tripled the prices in one week. I wish I could purchase a new amd 16 core workstation to edit videos for my YouTube channel. Now with all this depression, looks impossible.
 
retsdim said:
Guys, I know I’ll probably get yelled at for this.. but I’ve lived on this site for weeks learning the ins and out of OBS so I trust everyone’s opinion here more than anywhere else...

Due to the pandemic, our church has started live streaming all services to Facebook. We have learned as much, and as quickly as I believe amateurs wanna be techies can learn.. it’s been fun. And we are absolutely in love with OBS.
Our problem is our weakest point right now is our laptop that we run OBS off of. It’s going to have to be replaced and we are ready to do so, we just don’t know what we need to focus on when buying a PC used strictly for running OBS, basically.

We are currently using a Magewell USB Capture HDMI Gen 2, and plugging in to laptop via USB 3.0. When we purchase a replacement, should we be focusing on a better capture card? Processing power? Memory? Again, this machine will only be doing OBS, and probably any graphics designing we do for our stream.

Your all’s expertise in this would be greatly appreciated! We are just a bunch of wannabes trying to fake it till we make it! Thanks in advance!
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Echoing Rockbottom, a decent midrange computer with a desktop-grade i5 or equivalent, and an nVidia 1650 Super (NOT the non-super or Ti), 1660, or 20-series RTX card would be the way to go. The Turing NVENC (nVidia encoder) on those cards provides encoding on par with x264 Medium or Slow, and can handle all the heavy lifting.

Magewell is one of the best capture card brands out there at present. You picked a good one.

Not sure I'd go with the ATEM, but I'm a bit gun-shy of Blackmagic hardware; historically speaking they tended to be fragile, lacking features in odd ways, overpriced, and had a tendency to try to lock users into only using their products. If you already have BM gear and plan to jump into their vertical it can be a good option... otherwise, I'd probably just stick with OBS and an Elgato Streamdeck for a control surface.
 
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